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All Successful Writers Have This One Thing In Common.

And it’s not what you think.

Marilù Iacona
3 min readJun 10, 2021

If you’re dedicated to becoming an author, nothing I can say here will stop you. But if you’re not, nothing I can say will make you one.Chuck Palahniuk

At age nine, I was told to write an essay about my summer, as a first assignment after the three-month vacations away from school.

But at nine years old, either nothing exciting really happens or everything feels like a magical adventure and as far as Italian holidays go, in my life nothing worth writing about really happened — there wasn’t a Timothèe Chalamet to romanticise my bike rides or those family dinners outside under the shadow of a lemon tree, in mosquitoes’ territory.

So I faked it.

And I hated every minute of it.

So obviously, I became a writer.

Every year, a whole new adventure took form in those pages: first, it was a lost treehouse in the middle of the woods, then sandcastles so tall you could have actually lived in them. Horse ridings and boat trip on the Mediterranean sea, with dolphins swimming so close you could touch them or ride on them, which I obviously did.

Every story unlocked a part of my brain that was certainly demanding attention, but it also made…

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Marilù Iacona
Marilù Iacona

Written by Marilù Iacona

Writer & Book Blogger. I write about Personal Growth & Relationships and spend too much time online eating books for breakfast. https://koji.to/rilu

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